Constitutional Law

Ga. Lawmakers To Push For New Rule On Imposing Death Sentence

While the Death Penalty Information Center reports a significant drop in executions and death sentences nationwide, lawmakers in Georgia are working to introduce legislation to make it easier for jurors to impose capital punishment. Georgia law requires juries to be unanimous in sentencing a convict to death. A high-profile case that ended last week with three jurors refusing to support imposing the death sentence has spurred Georgia lawmakers, The New York Times reports, to begin “lining up to introduce bills eliminating the requirement that juries be unanimous for a death sentence.” The case involved Brian G. Nichols, who was convicted of murdering four workers in Atlanta.  

Full post as published by ACS Blog on December 31, 1969 (boomark / email).